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Writer: Henrik Ibsen Translator: Michael Meyer Director: Adrian Noble Reviewer: Mary Tapper The Public Reviews Rating: How fast can Hedda gabble? The play tells the story of Hedda Gabler, who Ibsen named deliberately by her maiden name as she was “her father’s daughter rather than her husband’s wife”. Hedda has married a man she does not love [...]

Writer: Henrik Ibsen Translator: Michael Meyer Director: Adrian Noble Reviewer: Ann Bawtree The Public Reviews Rating: First performed in 1890 at the height of Henrik Ibsen’s maturity this production has recently left Bath to go on tour and must surely be heading for the West End. It famously dramatises a situation which is common enough. How often have [...]

Writer: Henrik Ibsen Translator: Michael Meyer Director: Adrian Noble Reviewer: Elizabeth Vile The Public Reviews Rating: “Life for Hedda is a farce, which it isn’t worth seeing through to the end” – a note by Ibsen The above note made by Ibsen while he was writing Hedda Gabler seems to me to encapsulate the feeling of the character [...]